Chapter 239

"Again opening a slaughter…… and also stealing my identity……"

"Looking at Xue Xuan in this lifetime, his opening is a heaven-defying operation; Zhao Si watches, utterly speechless."

"However, as long as we can smoothly clear the game, it doesn't matter that this little dark one stole the identity; Zhao Si has no objection."

"Mainly, your opening slaughter…… is truly abstract to the point of exploding!"

"It's not that Zhao Si wants to complain; mainly, this train of thought is heaven-defying:"

"Because the kind-hearted Old Master Xue couldn't bear to see mortals suffer, so he killed them all, and then no one would complain……"

"If this were placed in Jin Bing's time, not to mention how the Heavenly Court would suppress demons, just that karma system alone would be enough to summon sages to enforce heavenly justice!"

"But having said that, in this doomed apocalypse, Xue Xuan, as the protagonist chosen by the system, really has no other strategy."

"Either maintain the status quo, letting cultivators devour mortals and the wilderness devour cultivators, using this mechanism established on mortal suffering to prolong the broken wilderness."

"Or, like in the previous simulation, establish the Heavenly Court to try to let people live in lasting peace, but ultimately passively destroy the mending mechanism, causing the wilderness to head toward early extinction, with everyone sharing the fate of 'no intact eggs under a overturned nest'."

"Between the two, the first option is meaningless, because the wilderness's destruction is inevitable; continuing to sacrifice mortals not only fails to have any substantive effect, but actually creates more casualties."

"The second option…… based on past experience, besides forcing Ming He to advance his showdown with Hongjun Heavenly Dao, it also has no practical significance, because Lao Jun is weak and can't defeat a Ming He blessed with the six saints' buff."

"So, after repeatedly hitting walls and ending up bruised, Xue Xuan can only take an unconventional path, selecting an unorthodox playstyle from the two dead ends, intending to bluff through and deceive Ming He and Lao Jun."

"To that end, he must indiscriminately open slaughter; at worst, after he profits to the Eternal Wilderness, he can later give them reborn flesh bodies……"

"What? Is the workload for this resurrection perhaps a bit huge?"

"Um, this doesn't need to be considered for now; he hasn't even profited yet, and overthinking future matters does him no good……"

"To Xue Xuan, profiting outweighs everything; therefore, any sacrifice is tolerable!"

"\"In an abstract era, abstract people are born; and to escape this abstract era, abstract people can only use even more abstract means……\""

"After thinking like that, Zhao Si couldn't help but gradually immerse himself in Xue Xuan's perspective:"

"Now most of the mysteries have become clear; it can be known that all contradictions arise from Ming He's stubborn insistence on preserving the wilderness."

Although the information about why the River of Styx has this ridiculous obsession is still incomplete, but...

"But Xue Xuan doesn't need to specially understand the River of Styx's plight, for no matter what the River of Styx's plight is, it has genuinely blocked the path of all beings fleeing to the eternal wilderness, thereby causing all suffering."

"So, as long as Xue Xuan brings people out, that's enough!"

Zhao Si thought this in their heart.

But regarding Xue Xuan's opening moistening plan, he still felt it was overly idealistic.

This is not questioning whether Xue Xuan performs well as a riddler, nor whether he can deceive the River of Styx.

Because these two are merely minor details; the decisive factor determining whether the game can be cleared has always been just one thing:

It is called, the system's settings!

Given the system's nature, can Xue Xuan really clear the game smoothly without solving all the mysteries...?

……

【You don't know what is meant by the system's nature, nor whether your plan will succeed; you only know that this time the stake is truly enormous.】

【For this illusory plan, you have staked the lives of all mortals in the wilderness; if you lose……】

【So you cannot lose, you can only win! Win small, win big, win huge, until you win till you're numb!】

【……】

【After the slaughter business of the Sea of Blood and the Heavenly Court got on track, you also finally began to ponder how to let others break through to Golden Immortal without hindrance.】

【After some thought, you decisively locked your research direction onto a most important cultivation resource.】

【Spiritual energy! It must be spiritual energy!】

【The biggest difference between you and others in cultivation lies in spiritual energy: what others use for cultivation is spiritual energy refined from mortal souls… this is called 'acquired spiritual energy'.】

【What you use, however, is innate spiritual energy produced from the primordial chaos's power 'something from nothing'!】

【Both kinds of spiritual energy are essentially the same; you previously tested them curiously and concluded that their effects in cultivation are identical, with no difference of superiority or inferiority.】

【But in non-cultivation matters, they have some differences: for example, in your first lifetime, when you and many true immortals like Jingxin entered the immortal realm of Mount Buzhou, you felt no discomfort, but Jingxin and others instantly lost their reason under the stimulation of the bloody red light!】

【For the experiment, you first used your own magical power to suppress Jingxin's madness, then directly tried using the primordial chaos's innate spiritual energy… facts prove that whether it is your magical power or the primordial chaos's innate spiritual energy, both can serve to awaken Jingxin's reason.】

【Since your magical power is essentially a product of innate spiritual energy, it can be inferred that innate spiritual energy possesses an extra ability compared to acquired spiritual energy: the capacity to suppress madness!】

【Although the specific principle is unclear, this is enough to prove their difference.】

【Given that, could it also be because of the difference in spiritual energy that others cannot break through to Golden Immortal as you do?】

【With this idea, you began to experiment alone, using yourself as the test subject……】

【Ding! The great savior decided to use himself as a guinea pig to explore the secret of Golden Immortal, you choose (?)】

【A: Use acquired spiritual energy to break through to Golden Immortal! B: Use innate spiritual energy to break through to Golden Immortal!】

Experiment?

Zhao Si raised an eyebrow:

"Using oneself as a guinea pig…… truly is a tough person!"

As expected of a high-level player who plays the system's reboot mechanism as a 'save point', this courage is indeed great, somewhat possessing the beauty of relying on immortality to recklessly court death……

"However, since you have this idea, that's naturally fine, as long as you have no objections."

"Choose A!"

【You chose option A, using acquired spiritual energy to break through to Golden Immortal!】

【After setting the save point, you now have no scruples, taking out the previously prepared banner of honoring souls…… no, it's the 'Human Emperor Banner', 'Heavenly Emperor Banner'…… in any case, whatever banner it is, anyway it's filled with mortal souls!】

【"Sorry!"】

【Grabbing it in one handful, it is instantly refined!】

【The massive acquired spiritual energy surges into your body; your cultivation, already at the peak of Mystic Immortal, begins to be pushed toward that intangible barrier to launch an assault!】

【In just a few days, your merit becomes complete; profound magical power surges between the three treasures of essence, energy, and spirit…… a familiar feeling begins to arise: the three treasures sublimate, the five energies generate themselves, limitless vitality gradually breeds, until a hint of 'immortal golden nature' gradually condenses.】

This is the fruition of the Golden Immortal Dao, also the embodiment of your will, marking that you have now entered the realm of eternal immortality!

However, these are things you already experienced in your previous life, so you didn't pay too much attention to them; you merely focused your senses on some possible strange changes…

Your perception bore fruit: amidst the ordinary changes, a sudden, inexplicable throbbing caught your attention!

At the moment when postnatal spiritual energy propelled you into the Golden Immortal stage, it also seemed to stimulate a certain power latent in your bloodline: this power is ancient, violent, and even aberrant!

This latent power is not unfamiliar to you, for in your first lifetime within the Immortal Realm, such power filled everywhere, and it obviously shares the same source as the bloody red light that robs one of reason…

This bizarre discovery shocked you greatly: why does such power lurk in your bloodline?!

Where does it come from?

Is it only you who is like this, or is everyone like this?

So-called Golden Immortal heavenly tribulation—could it be that this power hidden in your bloodline is provoked, thereby attracting it…?

Your thoughts are in turmoil; for a moment you cannot guess what secret lies behind this…

Just as you were lost in thought, an extremely dangerous sensation suddenly rose from your heart; startled, you hastily broke out of your meditative state, looked up, and saw a bolt of bloody lightning already falling!

The blood lightning struck without bias, aimed straight at you; if you are not mistaken, it must have been drawn here by the aberrant power in your bloodline!

In a mix of panic and anticipation, you watched helplessly as the blood lightning fell, until it struck you…

In an instant, your body lost consciousness, leaving only a sliver of awareness clinging to the newly condensed immortal golden nature; afterward, you drifted upward in a dazed state, carried involuntarily by the golden nature.

You "saw" your flesh easily transform into the familiar bloody-red qi, as if it had originally been composed of this red qi, now merely returning to its source…

You "saw" your viewpoint rapidly rising, its speed far surpassing the Golden Immortal's flight, even exceeding spatial transmission, as if some mysterious power higher than the Golden Immortal were specially pulling you.

At this strange speed, you almost instantaneously crossed an infinite distance, flying all the way into the familiar yet unfamiliar ancient starry road…

The heavenly stars slowly turned in the starry sky, vast and desolate, as if it had always been so; looking down, the scene of the five directions of the primordial wilderness appeared before your eyes, and the ever‑gushing blood‑tinged Mount Buzhou also came into view.

Magnificent rivers and mountains, boundless starry sky, gorgeous and enchanting, intoxicating; you, having lost most of your consciousness, only wish to remain here forever!

The viewpoint rose again… finally, you beheld that familiar sight: the red shadow overwhelmed the purple shadow, pinned down by twin swords…

It saw you, and was somewhat surprised: someone still dares to break through?

Hmm, bold indeed, a talent!

It was pleased, softly calling you that mysterious and ancient name.

"Asura…"

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(End of chapter)